This particular mid-semester break was also Halloweekend. The chance to show off costumes and enjoy scary movies with friends before the actual holiday on Wednesday. Instead of this, I chose to use the day off to take a walk. On campus, just behind the football and soccer field is a wide range of trails that I am sure spread for miles. This mid-morning was cloudy but a comfortable 40 degrees. So with a fall jacket, a hat and my dog, we set off down the winding trails around the woods in the back of campus. On these trails are upright markers that point out places where students once studied, held mass or prayed. The true history of the campus is shown in pictures of cabins and grottos with students ranging from the 1910’s to the 1970’s. Those are the one’s I saw anyways. My favorite part about these trails are the fact that the woods are quiet and oftentimes you feel like the only person in the world. With such beauty being in CSS’s backyard, it is a nice break from a dorm room of constant studying to go out and explore.
Paved trail
A marker of some of the history of CSS
Woodchip trail
Grotto